PSYC 3020 Chapter 2: CHAPTER 2.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Police selection procedure: a set of procedures used by the police to either screen out undesirable candidates or select in desirable candidates. Considered one of the earliest examples, lewis terman, in 1917 used the stanford-binet. Intelligence test to assist with police selection in california. By the mid-1950s, psychological and psychiatric screening procedures of the police applicants became a standard part of the selection procedure in several major police forces. All canadian police agencies currently conduct background checks of their applicants and require medical exams. Most canadian police agencies use a range of cognitive ability and personality tests in their selection process, such as rcmp"s police aptitude test and the six. In general terms, there are two separate stages to this process. Stage one is referred to as the job analysis stage. Here, the agency must define the knowledge, skills, and abilities (ksas) of a. Stage two is referred to as the construction and validation stage.